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I'm impressed to learn that the metaphor was first coined by Henry George, better known for his advocacy of a tax on land rent (also the inspiration for the game Monopoly). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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See also: https://qntm.org/moving
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> take charge of it, solve its problems The metaphor is most strongly correlated with Bucky Fuller [0], who was explicitly advocating exactly that (including but not limited to ecological sustainability). [0] https://en.wikipe
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People are motivated by a variety of things, only one being wealth accumulation; and there is an inherent tension between the qualitative and the quantitative (for instance, one would be insulted if one's dinner guest offered to pay th
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As much as I'd still like a physical mic kill-switch on MacBooks (if any company has its interests aligned with privacy-signaling, it's Apple), this is a very useful tip, thanks for sharing!
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Funny, I have the reverse feeling, where Typescript is (mostly) intuitive; whereas I admire Clojure and want to love it, but it keeps bouncing off my C-infused brain. I have definitely seen type definitions tortured within an inch of their
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Loren Brichter is a long-time Mac developer and hardly a "random person"; and his claims were based on anecdata from multiple machines and Twitter reports. Pareidolia is certainly a reasonable null-hypothesis (similar to 99% of co
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Have they given any follow-up to the https://chromeisbad.com fiasco?
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Do you have any data on the renewable energy claim? Considering that mining goes on 24/7, I would find that highly dubious (even if true, "most" could mean 51%, or 90%; 10% of the annual usage of Argentina is still a non-triv
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If I recall, not only did the Big Mac guy not consume sodas, but he never had the fries either (a perfect storm of salt, fat, and simple carbs).
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I think part of the value of the project is the human curation and attention to detail. The "good enough" semi-automated approach is what is already being done by Project Gutenberg and the like.
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Patents outlaw thinking.
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Relevant to HN's interests: a compelling, layperson-accessible argument against electronic voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
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> Mining is an exercise in wastefulness While I don't disagree (I think PoW should be carbon-taxed or fully outlawed), a massive portion of the non-crypto economy is intentional waste for social signaling purposes: https:/&#
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Ha, Graeber's debt book is a different one [0]. I can vouch for its excellence, but I don't recall him discussing jubilees much. A cursory search isn't turning up much, do you have any reading material for the Geiger counter
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Are you familiar with the work of Michael Hudson? I just learned of "...and forgive them their debts" [0], and looking forward to reading it. While I'm generally in favor of debt forgiveness for 2021 America, in his talks he&
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Governments also commit mass murder on behalf of the interests of private capital, ranging from feudal land enclosures, to the United Fruit Company in Honduras [0], to modern oil interests and the military-industrial complex. [0] https:&#x
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I'd be curious to know if he ran afoul of the verboten PC topics (race, gender, sexuality); considering the era in which he lived and worked, it seems not-unlikely that he'd be a "product of his time". At the same time
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For better or worse, his writing style is dense, and somewhat self-referential, as he builds and reuses a custom linguistic-metaphorical concept-stack. While he doesn't speak quite that densely, the voice and technique remains pretty s
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"When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your vie
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I've been deep diving on MMT lately (per Rohan Gray, Stephanie Kelton, and L. Randall Wray); while I'm not entirely convinced, one thing that's surprised me is that it's less prescriptive than is oft assumed from its ele
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1. Due to network effects, there's an argument that some types of online services are natural monopolies [0], and should be regulated the way we do for electricity, water, etc. There are reasonable arguments against such regulation (in
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Yes, that's fair. I'm going off of a fuzzy recollection, I haven't seen it in nearly a decade (and I was much more techno-utopian myself at the time; I remember feeling conflicted). Setting aside the broader critiques of capi
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Especially relevant to the HN crowd is AC's "Machines of Loving Grace" [0], critiquing a sort of techno-utopianism endemic to Western culture generally, and Silicon Valley specifically. While I'm still bullish on technol
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When I finally took the time to learn how the proof of The Halting Problem worked, I was fascinated by just how "edge-case" it actually is: it's less a general principle, than a proof that a black-hat exploit can always exist
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While I enjoy HHGTTG, I've long been of the opinion that the Dirk Gently books are Adams' best works. HHGTTG originated as a radio show, and while they're fun, they meander, almost a loosely connected series of vignettes rath
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Also not Jewish, and easily my favorite read of the 2010's, both in thought-provocation and pure enjoyment. Not since Douglas Adams have I been tickled pink by every word. As someone who skews atheist but is fascinated by religion, the
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Networked services intrinsically reward monopolization/centralization, due to Metcalfe's Law [0]: users are more concerned with going where other users are, than the merits of the service itself. (A curious exception: Uber and Lyf
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I use voice2json on my homebrew RPi voice rig, and it has a plain-text input mode [0]. With a little Node-RED + MQTT + shell magic, it's pretty neat/convenient to type into the terminal: `house "turn on lamp"`. :) [0] h
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I recommend digging back into TD.W posts from the 4th and 5th; while most content wouldn't pass a strict test of an explicit threat, their clear intent was not to protest or express dissent, but to prevent vote certification from takin

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